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  "id": 5809728,
  "name": "Edward Hospital, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "Edward Hospital v. State",
  "decision_date": "1990-11-02",
  "docket_number": "No. 88-CC-1454",
  "first_page": "280",
  "last_page": "282",
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      "cite": "43 Ill. Ct. Cl. 280"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Edward Hospital, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "OPINION\nRaucci, J.\nThis cause comes before us on cross-motions for summary judgment. On July 9, 1985, Leroy Weeks was arrested by the Illinois State Police and charged with a number of offenses including theft of a vehicle, being a fugitive from justice \u2014 escape, unlawful use of a weapon, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, and various traffic offenses. In the course of the commission of the offenses, Weeks was shot by a State trooper. Weeks was arrested by Sergeant Ryan of the State Police and Officer Edwards of the Romeoville Police Department. Weeks was taken to Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. At issue in this case is whether the State is liable for $7,875.97 in unpaid expenses for the treatment of Weeks.\nThe Sheriff\u2019s Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 125, par. 216) in effect at the time provided:\n\u201cAn arresting authority shall be responsible for any incurred medical expenses relating to the arrestee until such time as the arrestee is placed in the custody of the sheriff. However, the arresting authority shall not be so responsible if the arrest was made pursuant to a request by the sheriff. For the purposes of this Section, arresting authority shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 24 of An Act to revise the law in relation to jails and jailers, approved March 3,1874, as amended.\u201d\nThis language was added by Public Act 83 \u2014 370, approved September 14, 1983, effective January 1, 1984. The same Act amended Section 24 of \u201cAn Act to revise the law in relation to jails and jailers.\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 75, par. 24.) \u201cArresting authority\u201d was defined as\n\u201ca unit of local government, other than a county, which employs peace officers and whose peace officers have made the arrest of a person.\u201d (Emphasis ours.)\nIt is thus undeniably clear that the legislature intended \u201carresting authority\u201d to be limited to \u201ca unit of local government other than a county,\u201d. Illinois Revised Statutes (1985), ch. 1, par. 1029 defines \u201cunit of local government\u201d by reference to Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois.\nArticle VII, Section 1 of the 1970 Constitution defines \u201cunits of local government\u201d as\n\u201ccounties, municipalities, townships, special districts, and units, designated as units of local government by law, which exercise limited governmental powers or powers in respect to limited governmental subjects, but does not include school districts.\u201d\nThe State of Illinois is not a unit of local government.\nTherefore Claimant cannot recover based on this statute, and no other theory of recovery has been asserted.\nThe Claimant\u2019s motion for summary judgment should be denied and the Respondent\u2019s motion for summary judgment should be granted.\nIt is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the claim is dismissed and forever barred.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Raucci, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Grabowski & Clutts (Mary D. Aversano, of counsel), for Claimant.",
      "Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Arla Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 88-CC-1454\nEdward Hospital, Claimant, v. The State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed November 2, 1990.\nGrabowski & Clutts (Mary D. Aversano, of counsel), for Claimant.\nNeil F. Hartigan, Attorney General (Arla Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0280-01",
  "first_page_order": 392,
  "last_page_order": 394
}